His son having been
killed, Dracula’s rage takes over and he orders Domini out of the room lest he
harm her too. The vampire lord smashes all of the church furniture, while
pausing to gaze at the portrait of Christ and reflect on how only heaven’s power
has ever overcome his. He recalls his first wife, a weak woman he married
because of a political arrangement; he delighted in tormenting her while
cheating with other women. An image of his daughter Lilith, whose mother he
drove to suicide, appears before him, taunting him and he recalls the time when
she vowed to kill all of Dracula’s victims before he could feast on them,
driving him to a slow death by starvation. He eventually led her to London
where he maneuvered her into being impaled on one of the hands of Big Ben….
Dracula’s anger
raises a nightmarish storm over Boston, as noted by Quincy Harker, Frank Drake,
Blade, and Rachel van Helsing. Dracula recalls the murder of his second,
beloved wife Maria by their Turkish captors and his rescue of his first son who
would turn against him. In the throes of self-pity, he attacks a man in the
street, then a woman but learns she had her son with her; he briefly mistakes
this boy for Janus but soon comes to his senses and flees. He stands atop a
tower, calling on the gods to kill him but instead, the storm stops and the sky
clears. He knows that God will allow him no respite and vows to defeat God with
Domini at his side….
Domini kneels by her
son’s grave, knowing he will soon return and pleading with him to love his
father as he is loved in returns and not to make her choose between the two of
them. But she knows what will happen….